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Andy Verity

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‘A man with no eyebrows telling you the emperor has no clothes’. Author of 'Rigged'. BBC economics + investigation. Bust myths. Expose cover-ups. Listen.

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Andy Verity
Andy Verity@andyverity·
My book Rigged, exposing an establishment cover-up at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic followed by a whole series of miscarriages of justice, has already sold out its initial print run and been reprinted in the UK. Now it's being published in the United States:
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Andy Verity@andyverity·
All that time you spent with squiggly words or zebra crossings to log on somewhere, were you in fact doing someone else’s work for them - enriching them - hugely - for zero reward? You may not like the answer.
Sharbel@sharbel

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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86·
Aluminium just hit a four-year high. Two Gulf smelters, Alba in Bahrain and Qatalum in Qatar, declared force majeure because their product cannot ship through Hormuz. LME three-month prices surged to $3,385 to $3,446 per tonne. Citi raised its target to $3,600 with a bull case of $4,000. Nobody expected aluminium to be a casualty of an Iran war. That is the point. The market is still treating Hormuz as an oil story. Oil is line one. But underneath it, the strait is repricing fifty systems simultaneously, and most of them have not made a single headline. Aluminium is number four on the list. Number one is Brent crude at $109, with Citi calling $110 to $120 base and $150 to $200 if more infrastructure is targeted. Number two is LNG, with one fifth of global supply impaired per S&P Global and Asia absorbing the sharpest hit. Number three is urea at $610 on CBOT, with one third of seaborne fertiliser trade blocked and American farmers choosing soybeans over corn this week because nitrogen costs have made the arithmetic impossible. After aluminium, the cascade goes deeper. Naphtha feedstock for every petrochemical derivative. Polyethylene and polypropylene for every food package on every shelf. Helium for every semiconductor fabrication plant and every MRI machine. Sulfur for every fertiliser blend and every tyre. Power prices spiking because gas-fired generation reprices with LNG. Shipping freight and war-risk insurance that will not normalise for months after a ceasefire, based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. Steel and glass and cement and synthetic fibres, all energy-intensive, all repricing through the same chokepoint. Then the country list. Iraq just lost a third of its electricity because Israel bombed the gas field that supplies its grid. Bangladesh faces 20 to 40 percent rice yield losses. Egypt’s bread subsidies are being crushed by dollar-denominated wheat and fertiliser imports. Pakistan’s debt service is consuming fiscal space that would have buffered the shock. Sub-Saharan Africa confronts a $90 billion sovereign debt wall. Sri Lanka is rationing fuel with QR codes and shutting down on Wednesdays. Then the financial layer. BofA shows fund-manager cash at 4.3 percent, the sharpest jump since the pandemic. Growth optimism collapsed. Inflation expectations rose. Geopolitical risk overtook AI as the top tail event. Gold touched $5,000. Bitcoin is bleeding. The Fed holds at 3.50 to 3.75 because oil inflation will not break. Central bank easing is delayed across every major economy. Private credit refinancing assumptions are deteriorating. And at the bottom of the list, the entry that connects everything: the irreversible corn-to-soybean acreage shift on 90 million acres of American farmland. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres. Soybeans rising to 85 million. The RFS mandate consumes 43 percent of a shrinking corn crop. The cattle herd is at 86.2 million, a 75-year low. Feed reprices. Protein reprices. Packaging reprices. The grocery bill absorbs all fifty lines. A smelter in Bahrain declared force majeure because it cannot ship through a strait 300 kilometres away. A farmer in Iowa is choosing soybeans because he cannot afford the molecule that transits the same strait 11,000 kilometres away. Both decisions are permanent. Both trace to the same 21 miles of water. And neither knows the other exists. Fifty systems. One chokepoint. The market sees the oil. The crisis is everything underneath. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci@Scaramucci·
Something has to be done about Citizens United. Since January 2010 we’ve had unlimited money go to politicians. Campaign donations are up eight times since then and 36% of all that money is coming from the top 0.1% of the population. You think those people are donating out of patriotism? They are buying protection. Corporate tax cuts. No antitrust enforcement. No breakups. No accountability. And it is working perfectly. We used to bust monopolies in this country. Teddy Roosevelt made it a centerpiece of American democracy. The idea was simple — concentrated power in the hands of a few is a threat to everyone else. We don’t do that anymore. Not because the monopolies got more virtuous. Because the monopolies got better at buying the people who would have stopped them. This is not a left issue or a right issue. This is a math issue. When 36 cents of every dollar in politics comes from a fraction of a fraction of the population — those are the only people getting served. The rest of us are just paying for the system that ignores us. Reform Citizens United. Bring back antitrust enforcement. Or watch it get worse. Loved my time on @RealTimers @billmaher
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Monsieur Cholet
Monsieur Cholet@stugoo17·
#PostOfficeScandal #ParmodKalia #StateSponsoredCrime The Quiet Dignity of Parmod Kalia (6th December 1958 –13th March, 2026) Parmod Kalia was a trained Banker. An Associate of the Institute of Bankers. Assistant Bank Manager. Treasurer of an International Charity. A man for whom every penny had to be accounted for. He chose the Orpington Post Office for the quiet life. Stable hours. Time with his wife and four children. The Horizon system repaid that modest ambition with a phantom shortfall of £22,202.01. Post Office Ltd told him he was "the only one." The National Federation of SubPostmasters — his supposed protector — told him to repay the money and fabricate a story. He borrowed £22,000 from his Mother's life savings. Post Office pocketed every penny. Then they prosecuted him anyway. 6 months in Prison. 14 years in hiding. 3 occasions where he nearly took his own life. A 17 year estrangement from his son Mahesh, who was just 17 when they took his father away. Children who grew up asking: "Dad, have you taken the money?" His own children. Asking if their father was a thief. Because the State told them he was. His conviction was finally quashed in May 2021. He should have spent his remaining years in peace, rebuilding what was stolen. Instead, the Post Office unleashed elite City law firms to fight tooth and claw over every penny piece of his Redress. They challenged causation. They delayed. They low-balled. They rejected his interim claim of £100,000 on "public interest grounds." Highly paid lawyers — billing more per hour than Parmod earned in a week — deployed forensic cruelty against a traumatised, terminally declining man whose only demand was that someone look him in the eye and say: 'we did this to you, and we are sorry'. He tragically died on March 13, 2026. Still fighting. Still waiting. Still uncompensated. Still dignified. The inhumane savages masquerading as lawyers who wage this war of attrition against Parmod, his family and hundreds like him will simply move on, adjust their cufflinks, sip their flat whites, and open the next file. Another victim. Another billable hour. This obscene tragedy simply cannot continue. The time is long overdue for the Prime Minister to intervene — to show some leadership, some backbone, and some basic human decency. These are not commercial disputes. These are traumatised victims of a State-sponsored crime. The lawyers instructed to handle their redress must be ordered — ordered — to show compassion, humanity, and urgency. Every day of delay is another day stolen. And as Parmod Kalia's demise has proved, the days run out. Rest now, Parmod. The truth outlived them all. The shame belongs to those who made you wait. @Keir_Starmer @darrenpjones @biztradegovuk @AGinsight @liambyrnemp @commonsBTC @RachelReevesMP @DavidDavisMP @kevinhollinrake @CastletonLee @Janetsk20073533 @SeemaMisra_OBE @edwardhenry1 @BBCEmmaSimpson @nickwallis @Karlfl @marksweney @hrw @Cyclefree2 @DanNeidle @SkyNewsAdele @BBCBreakfast @ElCShaikh @VarchasPatel @Pinsent_Masons @hmtreasury @HouseofCommons @premnsikka @TimBushLondon @UKHouseofLords @TjX50 @Malcolm22206844 @NFSP @postoffice @PostOfficeNews @NFSP_UK @voiceofthepm @NigelRailton
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#PostOfficeScandal Desperately sad news 😔 Parmod was such a lovely man in every way imaginable - RIP. Yet another SubPostmaster passes away without seeing the full just he fought for for so hard and with such dignity. Condolences to all his family 🙏

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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86·
Iran just offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But only if you pay in yuan. CNN confirms, citing a senior Iranian official, that Tehran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers through the Strait provided the cargo is traded in Chinese yuan. Not dollars. Not euros. Yuan. The waterway that carries 20% of global oil, that seven P&I clubs closed through insurance, that a wounded Supreme Leader ordered permanently shut, that the United States just bombed the military defences of Kharg Island to force open, is being offered back to the world on one condition: the currency changes. This is the most consequential sentence of the war that nobody in the oil market has priced. The petrodollar system was born in 1974 when Saudi Arabia agreed to price oil exclusively in dollars in exchange for American military protection. That agreement has governed global energy trade for fifty-two years. Every barrel of crude on Earth has been denominated in dollars. Every central bank holds dollar reserves because oil requires them. Every nation that imports energy must first acquire dollars to pay for it. The system is the foundation of American financial hegemony, and Iran just proposed replacing it with yuan for the world’s most critical chokepoint. China is already the model. Eighty to ninety percent of Iranian crude exports to China settle in yuan or barter through CIPS, the Chinese cross-border payment system that processed 175 trillion yuan, approximately $24.5 trillion, in 2025, a 43% increase year on year. Since 28 February, 11.7 to 16.5 million barrels of Iranian crude have transited the Strait to China via shadow fleet under IRGC protection while every other nation’s shipping is locked out. China pays in yuan. China’s tankers move freely. Everyone else burns or reroutes. The war was supposed to force the Strait open. Instead it is being reopened selectively, on Iran’s terms, in China’s currency. America bombed Kharg to demonstrate it controls the island. Iran responded by demonstrating it controls the condition of passage. The military targets are rubble but the negotiating position is intact: the Strait opens when the currency changes. The implications cascade across every domain. If yuan-denominated tankers begin transiting Hormuz while dollar-denominated tankers remain locked out by insurance, mines, and IRGC targeting, the war produces a bifurcated oil market: yuan barrels for China and BRICS partners at Iranian-discounted prices, dollar barrels for the West at war-premium prices. Two prices for the same commodity. Two currencies for the same waterway. Two systems for the same barrel of oil. The fragmentation the dollar was designed to prevent is being accelerated by the war that was supposed to preserve it. China imports 45% of its crude through the Hormuz region. It holds 90 to 130 days of strategic reserves. Its teapot refineries process Iranian crude at $9 to $12 below Brent. Its CIPS system bypasses every Western sanction. And now the country whose Supreme Leader cannot stand is offering Beijing the one thing no amount of American airpower can bomb: a currency alternative for energy transit. The Strait is not reopening for ships. It is reopening for yuan. And the fifty-two-year-old system that priced every barrel in dollars just met the war that may end it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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The White House@WhiteHouse

“Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island... Iran has NO ability to defend anything that we want to attack — There is nothing they can do about it!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

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Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
That worries me a bit. The Washington Post - which almost always has bad takes - just published an article (washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…) essentially repeating the arguments I made in my own article 3 days ago (see quoted post below): that far from hurting China, the Iran war might actually prove beneficial because a) China is well insulated from spiking oil prices and b) it's the best advertisement ever for Chinese EVs and solar panels. WaPo also points out, like I did, that it's Europe, not China, that lacks the energy resilience to weather this crisis and is therefore far harder hit. Well, let's just put that on the account of a broken clock being right twice a day and not - hopefully - me having lost the plot sliding into WaPo-grade takes 😋
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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

Few things have annoyed me more since the start of the war on Iran than to hear some European politicians repeat the narrative that it was "all about China." One surprising (and disappointing) example was France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise, France's main left-wing opposition party, who claimed that the war's objective was to “limit China's oil supply capabilities” (x.com/JLMelenchon/st…). By saying this he literally parrots - almost word for word - the narrative of Lindsey Graham on Fox News (x.com/OunkaOnX/statu…) or that of the Hudson institute, an American right-wing neoconservative think tank (hudson.org/foreign-policy…). Which, you'll agree, is rather unexpected company for Mélenchon... Why does it annoy me so much? Because it's painfully obvious that the consequences of this war are far, far worse for Europe than they are for China. Heck, if anything, this war may even ironically prove beneficial for China: it is quite literally the best advertisement for green energy the world has ever seen. Every day the Strait of Hormuz remains contested, every oil price spike - all of it is a live demonstration of exactly why fossil fuel dependency is a massive strategic liability. This war is vindicating China's bet in spectacular fashion, and there is little doubt it will further encourage much of the world to buy exactly what China is selling: replacing dependence on whoever controls oil and gas chokepoints with energy from the sun and wind. See, in large part due to its green energy ramp-up China, as of last year, reached an 85% energy self-sufficiency rate (chinadaily.com.cn/a/202602/03/WS…) which is absolutely remarkable for a country that consumes as much energy as the U.S. and the EU... combined. The same, however, very much cannot be said of Europe. Where China is at 85% they're at an appalling 41% (ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati…), less than half. So already, for this alone, Mélenchon should be worrying about Europe, not China. But that's just the beginning - the full picture is much worse. What is this war, when one strips it to its essence? What is the precedent being set? You have the world’s most powerful country attacking a sovereign nation, assassinating its leader, and attempting regime change - without even bothering to provide a casus belli (insanely the "casus belli" advanced by Rubio was that the victim would defend itself: x.com/RnaudBertrand/…). In other words, the world this precedent establishes is a “might makes right” world on steroids, like we haven’t seen in many generations. And, by definition, in a “might makes right” world what matters is… might. And let's be real: today China has it, and Europe just doesn’t. For instance, what do you think happens to Greenland if Iran goes the way Trump wants and the lesson he gets out of it is that he can simply do anything he wants with impunity if the other party is weak? And when the Europeans who cheered that precedent then turn around and ask the world to respect their sovereignty? Europe is the kind of power that only survives in a world with rules and they’re foolishly cheering their destruction. My latest article makes the full case, with the data to back it up. China will be fine, Europe won't and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because even the precious few politicians who aren't totally vassalized to the U.S. - the Mélenchons of Europe - are starting to work off the exact same delusional script as U.S. neocons, just reading from the opposite side (replying “they’re encircling China” and objecting to neocons saying “we’re encircling China” and cheering). Which raises the question: who exactly is looking out for Europe? I don't have an answer but my article, I believe, makes a pretty strong case for why this question has never been more urgent. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

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Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm·
Following JPMorgan’s announcement earlier this week (please see earlier post), here’s Bloomberg on “back leverage:” “Private credit funds, already on the defensive amid an unprecedented investor exodus and a number of defaulting borrowers, are now bracing for a battle with their go-to lenders: major banks.” #economy #markets #privatecredit #banks
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Andy Verity@andyverity·
Important post here. If Mandelson set up a meeting with the PM for Palantir and OpenAI, which were clients of his own firm in which he had a stake and subsequently won government contracts, parliament should be shown any records of the meeting. The police might want them too.
Monsieur Cholet@stugoo17

#Mandelson #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinBFF #AI #TechSolutions #Palantir #Starmer LORD MANDELSON'S MAGNIFICENT TECHNOLOGY DEAL Or: How To Negotiate A Bilateral Agreement With Big Tech While Your Lobbying Firm Represents… Big Tech Documents released yesterday reveal that Lord Mandelson described the UK-US Technology Partnership as his "personal pride and joy" in a farewell email to Washington Embassy staff on 11 September 2025. One week later, Downing Street published the Memorandum of Understanding for a "Technology Prosperity Deal" committing both nations to "collaborate closely in the build-out of powerful AI infrastructure." How nice for everyone. Especially nice, perhaps, for OpenAI and Palantir — both clients of Global Counsel, the lobbying firm Lord Mandelson founded and in which, according to the FT, he continued to hold a stake as recently as February 2026. But here's the curious part. When Government officials carried out due diligence checks ahead of Mandelson's appointment in December 2024, the resulting checklist named Global Counsel clients including TikTok, Shell, JP Morgan, and Shein. Palantir? Not mentioned. OpenAI? Not mentioned. This despite both appearing on Global Counsel's own lobbying register entry for July–September 2024 — the quarter immediately before the checks were carried out. So to recap: 📌 Ambassador personally negotiates a tech deal with the US 📌 Deal explicitly promotes AI infrastructure and exports 📌 Ambassador's lobbying firm represents AI companies 📌 Ambassador retains a financial stake in said firm 📌 Due diligence somehow fails to mention the AI clients Nothing to see here. Move along....... Except when Mandelson became US Ambassador, Officials told him his stake in Global Counsel "would have to cease." Mandelson failed to comply. On 27 February 2025, Mandelson arranged a secret meeting between PM Keir Starmer and Palantir CEO Alex Karp in Washington DC — while still holding a ~21% stake in the lobbying firm representing Palantir. No minutes. No transcript. No official record. The Government must urgently explain what role Mandelson played in this deal and how these conflicts were managed. Otherwise we're left with the distinct impression that the revolving door between Whitehall and the lobbying industry doesn't so much revolve as stand permanently open — with a welcome mat on both sides. @kevinhollinrake @marksweney @andyverity @DanNeidle @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews @Karlfl @LukePollard @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords @premnsikka @TimBushLondon

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Vladimir Seroff
Vladimir Seroff@VSeroff·
A useful way to think about financial crises is through a thermodynamic analogy. Bringing water to 100 °C does not immediately make it boil. At that point the system enters a phase transition: additional energy no longer raises the temperature — it goes into the latent heat of vaporization. The water may look calm while it absorbs large amounts of hidden energy. And interestingly, small bubbles often start appearing even before full boiling begins. They form locally where conditions are slightly different — tiny disturbances that signal the system is close to a phase change. Financial systems behave in a similar way near stress thresholds. For long stretches the indicators move only slightly: a few funds gate redemptions, banks tighten lending, defaults creep up, refinancing becomes harder. The system still looks “stable,” just as water sitting quietly at 100 °C looks stable. But internally the system may be absorbing stress — leverage, liquidity mismatches, refinancing risk. If that stress keeps accumulating, even a relatively modest shock can trigger the phase transition: liquidity evaporates, refinancing fails, assets are dumped simultaneously, and what looked stable suddenly starts to boil. At the same time, the analogy has an important caveat: not every system that reaches 100 °C actually boils. If the additional energy stops arriving, the bubbles subside and the system returns to equilibrium without a full phase change. In financial terms, policy responses, new liquidity, or improving conditions can sometimes dissipate the accumulated stress before it turns into a cascade. The difficulty is that when a system is near the boundary, commentary tends to polarize. Some insist nothing is happening. Others declare that collapse has already begun. In reality the system may simply be very close to the phase change — and those early bubbles may already be forming.
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SungHoon Lee, IQ 276
SungHoon Lee, IQ 276@sungleeiq·
Nobody is telling you how FUCKED the financial system actually is right now. And it started cracking TODAY. Step 1 → JPMorgan just marked down its private credit loans and RESTRICTED lending to private credit funds. Step 2 → Morgan Stanley is now BLOCKING redemptions at its private credit fund after withdrawals surged. Step 3 → Cliffwater's private credit fund redemptions just hit 14%. Step 4 → Partners Group says defaults could DOUBLE from here. Step 5 → Fitch says US private credit default rates hit 9.2% — the HIGHEST ever recorded. That's 3 of the biggest banks in the world pulling back from the same market in the SAME WEEK. Now connect the dots: Step 6 → Private credit funds borrowed from banks to lend to companies. Banks are now cutting them off. Step 7 → Those funds can't refinance. Redemptions accelerate. They're forced to sell assets at a loss. Step 8 → The companies that borrowed from private credit? Tech startups, software firms, mid-market companies. They can't refinance either. Step 9 → Defaults cascade. Not just 9.2%. We're talking 15-20% by Q3. Step 10 → This is a $1.7 TRILLION market. Bigger than subprime was in 2008. And here's the part that should TERRIFY you: This is happening WHILE oil tankers are burning in the Strait of Hormuz. WHILE Iran is laying mines. WHILE 21% of global oil supply hangs by a thread. 2008 had ONE crisis. A housing collapse. 2026 has THREE running simultaneously: → A private credit implosion → A war shutting down global energy → A bond market that can't absorb the shock Nobody is pricing this in. Nobody.
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Andy Verity@andyverity·
Meanwhile, as the world's attention is focused elsewhere...
George Noble@gnoble79

We're watching a financial crisis unfold in real time. The last time funds started blocking investors from getting their money back, Bear Stearns collapsed six months later. In 2007, BNP Paribas froze €1.6 billion in funds. Bear Stearns declared 2 funds "essentially worthless" and gated a third. Everyone said it was "contained." 6 months later the entire financial system nearly went under. I'm not saying we're there YET... But I am saying the pattern is rhyming. BlackRock just capped withdrawals from its $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund after investors demanded 9.3% of their shares back - nearly DOUBLE the fund's 5% quarterly limit. Investors wanted $1.2 billion out. BlackRock gave them $620 million and said no to the rest. BlackRock stock dropped 7%. KKR, Ares, Apollo, Blue Owl - all down 5-6% on the same day. The financial sector ETF is off 9% in a month. This is the same BlackRock that just slashed a $25 million private credit loan from 100 to ZERO in 3 months. Full value one quarter. Worthless the next. And they'd already done the exact same thing months earlier with Renovo Home Partners. But this isn't just a BlackRock problem. Look at the dominoes: Last summer, Tricolor and First Brands went unexpectedly bankrupt. $10-15 billion in combined liabilities. Write-offs hit JPMorgan, UBS, and Jefferies. Then a UK lender called Market Financial Solutions collapsed with a £2.4 billion loan book. Fraud allegations. Double-pledged collateral. Barclays exposed for £500 million. Apollo, Elliott, Santander - all caught in the wreckage. Then Blue Owl permanently halted redemptions. Stock cut in HALF. Then Blackstone's $82 billion flagship fund got hit with $3.8 billion in redemption requests. They had to pump in $400 million of their own money just to meet demands. Now BlackRock is literally blocking the exits. Even Apollo's own CEO warned a shakeout is coming. When EVERYONE at the top is waving red flags - pay attention. UBS raised its worst-case default forecast to 15%. Defaults sit at 3-5% today. The trajectory is ugly. Here's the structural problem: After 2008, regulations pushed risky lending OUT of banks and INTO private credit. The sector ballooned to $3 trillion. But these funds make 5-7 year loans while promising investors quarterly liquidity. That works until everyone wants out at once. Which is exactly what's happening. 40% of sponsor-backed loans are tied to the software industry - the same sector AI is threatening to destroy. The Fed pumped 40% more money into the system after Covid and kept rates at zero. That easy money funded garbage underwriting. And now there's a $162 billion maturity wall hitting THIS YEAR. I've been warning about private credit for weeks. The story is always the same: Opaque valuations. Illiquid assets. Limited transparency. And the false promise of steady returns with no volatility. The whole sales pitch was equity-like returns with bond-like stability. But you can't eliminate volatility - you can only HIDE it... Until you can't. When the WORLD'S LARGEST ASSET MANAGER starts blocking investors from getting their money back, that's not "noise". That's an alarm. Get out before the exit gets more crowded.

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The Intellectualist
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow·
President Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, who led GPB Capital, less than two weeks after he began serving a seven-year sentence in a $1.6 billion fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than 10,000 investors. …eintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-free...
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Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly. When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight. Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office. Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action. We need answers, transparency, and oversight.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie·
Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets. They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. They control the AI you're integrating into your lives, the algorithms feeding you content, and your personal data you've given up for access. This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us, and we’re not talking enough about it. Pay attention.
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The Kobeissi Letter
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter·
BREAKING: Iran is telling vessels that they are closing the Strait of Hormuz, per Reuters. Over 20% of global oil supply is potentially coming to a halt.
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Andy Verity@andyverity·
…which is not dissimilar to the advice Lord Mandelson gave 16 years before to Epstein that Jamie Dimon should ‘mildly threaten’ chancellor Alistair Darling re plans for a tax on bankers’ bonuses: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Andy Verity@andyverity·
Note the nature of that lobbying. Judging by this report, JP Morgan, the Wall Street titan led by Jamie Dimon throughout the time when it was facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s activity, used a London building as a bargaining chip: theguardian.com/business/2025/…
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